tritoma

Other forms of tritoma

plural

tritomas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tritoma

What does tritoma mean?

tritoma means "a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers".

How many syllables are in tritoma?

tritoma has 3 syllables and divides as tri-to-ma under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tritoma?

Close synonyms include kniphofia, flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tritoma a common word?

tritoma is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.